Café In Five Year Legal Battle Over Grease Trap Regulations There are several lessons to be learned in this ongoing story about a five year (and counting) legal battle over whether or not a café inside a now defunct bookstore needs to have a grease trap installed. But, probably the most important lesson to be …

Nottingham Restaurant Owner Prosecuted For Grease Interceptor Violations A restaurant owner in Nottingham has been fined for blocking sewers with fat, oil and grease after multiple customer reports of sewer blockages and flooding in the area. Appearing at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court, the owner pled guilty to a charge relating to the emptying of waste into …

New York Targeting Grease Trap Offenders The Department of Public Works Superintendent Terry Brolinski in the Village of Lewiston New York has reminded Board Members that some restaurant owners are ignoring the grease trap ordinance. Instead of summarily dumping grease down the drain, eateries are required to have a grease trap. When grease isn’t properly …

Mississippi Implementing Grease Trap Inspection Program to Combat FOG The city of Jackson Mississippi’s Public Works Department recently announced a partnership with local restaurants to help educate business owners and the public about the importance of keeping fats, oil and grease (FOG) out of the city’s sewer system to prevent grease traps in Mississippi restaurants …

Replace Your Commercial Garbage Disposal in Your Senior Living Facility There are often issues with commercial garbage disposals in senior living facilities because they have trouble handling all the food waste in busy kitchens where the garbage disposal is used frequently. Commercial disposals just can’t keep up. Instead of having a leaking commercial disposer repaired …

How Your Cafeteria Grease Trap Design Impacts Safety and Functionality Have you heard of the Whitechapel Monster? This enormous grease blockage of the London sewers gave rise to the term “fatberg” in the early part of 2015. Described as longer than Tower Bridge and the weight of 11 double-decker buses, the stinking, greasy mess required …

Food Scrap Collector Generates Renewable Energy In New Jersey Did you know that food waste can be turned into renewable energy? The power generated by the methane gas captured from micro-organisms at the Joint Meeting of Union and Essex Counties wastewater treatment plant in New Jersey, part of the “food” the bugs digest is collected …

City Implementing Grease Trap Inspections For Delaware Restaurants A recent study showed extremely high levels of biocontaminants in Rehoboth Delaware’s stormwater system in the hours immediately following heavy rains. At the time, city officials questioned the source of the bacteria, because the state’s ocean monitoring system wasn’t showing those same high levels of bacteria in …

Keeping Your Commercial Kitchen Clean With Regular Grease Trap Cleaning More than 54 billion meals are served at 844,000 commercial kitchens in the United States each year. On average, over 40% of adults eat at a restaurant each day. With such a high percentage of Americans eating out, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration places …

New Grease Trap Cleaning Rules Ensure Minnesota Restaurants Keep Grease Out Of Sewers Grease washed from restaurant frying pans and dirty dishes is creating a fatty mess in Minnesota sewers and public works crews hope new rules will unclog the subterranean arteries. Cities across the state have been getting more aggressive in recent years about …